"I just saw Milosevic. He told this
criminal Western kangaroo court that he doesn't
recognize them. So I wish there was a lot more of
those guys, like Milosevic." -- Comment of a
refugee from the U.S.-installed
Taliban regime in Afghanistan, presently
residing in California, after watching President
Slobodan Milosevic tell off the NATO's
"Tribunal" earlier today.

The other day, Slobodan Milosevic, who has a
genius for brevity, called it a 'genocidal circus.'
Should the powers-that-be have allowed this confrontation
to be televised? On the one hand, a modest man, genuine,
smart, accusing his accusers; on the other hand, a sugary
nightmare of Empire.

Now that Americans run the world, they like to
wheel out a Brit sometimes for effect ("they got
class, you know") but it wasn't enough. At least two
times 'Judge' Richard May, 'Chairman' of the 'Tribunal,'
(in the New World Unreality, one is driven to quotation
marks...) was witnessed by 300 million viewers cutting
Slobodan Milosevic's microphone.

I'll say one thing for May: he's quick with
the cutoff button. When Milosevic finishes making a
complete fool of him, he'll be much sought-after as a
radio Talk Show host.

To the glib unreality of CNN's standard
coverage, with cameras at first lingering on Stately
Buildings and a reporter who talked like the guy who
narrated 'Lives of the Rich and Famous,' was added the
faux-judicial atmosphere of the Tribunal, which looks
like a movie set designed by an ad agency. What are they
selling?

'Chairman' May was the perfect TV pitchman,
delivering memorized lines with what someone called
"cut glass politeness". And of course, upper
class British. That sells in the colonies.

"You will be accorded the full rights of
the accused, according to international law, ' May
promised Slobodan Milosevic plus hundreds of millions of
viewers as if we were fools, as if in this theme park of
a court room with its designer robes he was addressing a
fellow actor instead of the man who led his country ten
years resisting Washington's attempt to destroy it
(during which Washington violated every known
international law plus human decency).

"The full protections of international
law," intoned May. As if Milosevic had not just been
kidnapped and thrown in a cell, apparently without his
heart pills.

What are the rights of a kidnap victim under
international law?

"These proceedings will be long and
complex and you may wish to reconsider whether you want
to have counsel,"cooed the false
May.

The real Slobodan Milosevic answered, "I
consider this tribunal false tribunal and indictments
false indictments. It is illegal, not being appointed by
UN general assembly so I have no need to appoint council
to illegal organ."

May frowned. He explained to the three hundred
million that of course this unwise decision to decline
counsel could be reversed anytime because NATO's court
was entirely fair minded and now would or would not Mr.
Milosevic care to exercise his inalienable right to hear
the lies fabricated against him?

"That's your problem," said
Milosevic.

May looked pained, meaning, 'Now do you see
why we dropped uranium-encased bombs on them?'

"What is your plea?"

Answered Milosevic: "This Tribunal aims
to produce false justification for the war crimes of NATO
committed in Yugoslavia."

"I asked you a question," said May,
reminding the world that: 'The International Community's
patience is not infinite.' As if the world didn't already
know.

One almost expected a Director to interrupt,
crying: "CUT! CUT! Mr. Milosevic,
if it is not too too much trouble could I ask you to
kindly stick to your lines? Now let
us try again, shall we? 'NATO Shows The World It Isn't
Just A Bunch Of Nazis With A Smiling Face,' Take
Two!" ***

PARTING THOUGHT

Do you recall that two days ago the
"Telegraph" (and other papers) assured us that
Milosevic's legal strategy would be to say, "Sure I
committed war crimes, but Western leaders helped me do
it." And remember that I said they were making the
whole thing up? ( See:
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/dis.htm)

Well, next time you read some article where
Milosevic or someone else opposing Washington is reported
saying or doing something which it would REALLY help
Washington for him or her to say or do, and you in your
kindness of heart start to think, "There must be
SOME truth to this - they couldn't just make the whole
thing up," just recall the difference between what
they told us Milosevic was going to say and what he in
fact said.

"Judge Richard May cut off the
microphone used by Slobodan Milosevic to interrupt
him during the former Yugoslav president's dramatic
appearance at the UN war crimes tribunal on Tuesday,
a spokesman for the court in The Hague said.

"'It has happened before. The judge
has a button on his desk that enables him to cut off
the sound,' spokesman Jim Landale told reporters.

"He was explaining what had initially
appeared to be technical problems which made
Milosevic's remarks inaudible as he launched into an
apparently prepared speech challenging the legitimacy
of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY)."

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